West Durham Catholic Parishes: Esh, Esh Winning, Langley Park and St John Boste Pastoral Office, Durham Road, Ushaw Moor, Durham. DH7 7LF Priest: Father David Coxon Tel: (0191) 373 0219 Secretary: Lisa Hatton Tel: (0191) 373 0219 Office Hours: Tues – Thurs from 9.30am–2.30pm E-mail: [email protected] Website: wdrcp.org Primary Schools: St Joseph’s, Ushaw Moor: Tel. (0191) 373 0355 Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Esh Winning: Tel. (0191) 373 4343 St Michael’s Esh Laude: Tel. (0191) 373 1205

Hospital R C Chaplain Father Paul Tully Tel. (01388) 818544 Please telephone the Chaplain if you have someone in hospital who would like a visit. St Joseph’s St Michael’s Our Lady Queen of St Joseph’s Langley Ushaw Moor Esh Laude Martyrs, Newhouse Park Saturday 9 February 6.00 pm Mass Jackson & Bullen Family , Patricia Edwards & People of the Parish Sunday 10 February 9.00 am Mass 10.30 am Mass 5th Sunday of the Year James and Anne Paul Boddice (sick) Redmond, Teresa Rochford & Maggie Rowntree & People of the Parish People of the Parish Monday 11 February Tuesday 12 February 6.15 pm Confessions 7.00 pm Mass Anne Cutmore Wed 13 February 9.15 am Mass School Chapel Priest’s Intention Thurs 14 February 9.15 am Mass SS Cyril, Monk & Methodius Priest’s Intention Bp Patrons of Europe Friday 15 February 9.15 am Mass Aileen Cook Saturday 16 February 6.00 pm Mass Catherine O’Neil & People of the Parish Sunday 17 February 9.00 am Mass 10.30 am Mass 6th Sunday of the Year People of the Parish Michael & Mary Ann Peel, Nora Stiff & People of the Parish Sick: Ann Waugh, Faith Wilthew, Caitlin Minnis and Monica Mitten from Ushaw Moor. Connor Robinson, John Fairbrass Jnr from Esh Winning. Nichol Moralee from Esh.

Funeral of Ian Chamberlain (), Durham crematorium: Tuesday, February 12th, 1.30pm

Anniversaries: Ushaw Moor: Tommy Donnelly, Mary McMahon, Jack O’Connor, Agnes Finnigan, Margaret Davis, Teresa Corrigan, Olive Barr, Alison Davidson, Ann Olive Brown. Esh Winning: Beradette Watkin, Duncan McCallum, Katie Wood, William Cantwell, Robert Bastain, Philomena Traynor, Peter Shaw, Ethel Duggan, Dick Garr, Celia Wlaton, Jimmy Doyle, Thomas Turner, Henry Bradley, Veronica Hale, Roseann Slevin, Richard Rayner, Henry Turner, Harry Oliver, Agnes Thompson, Violet Atkinson Esh & Langley Park: Harry Stockdale, Colin Carey, Vincent Wrangham, James Patrick Sherry, James Redmond, Tom Dixon, Mary Johnston, Jane Turnbull, Kenneth Tague, William Parker

Collection Details: Ushaw Moor: £118.05 Esh Winning: £100.55 Attendance: 55 Esh & Langley Park: £197.50 Ushaw Moor Esh/Langley Park Esh Winning Holy Communion Ministers Lisa Cummings Susan Clark Cecilia Wharton & Gerard Towns Lauren Kirkwood Veronica Chapman Christina Parker Denise Kendall Readers David & Joyce McDonough Karen Thompson Kathleen Flatley & Anne Lawlor Stuart Cox Prayers of Intercession Peter Murray Welcomer Chris Thompson Children’s Liturgy School Holidays School Holidays Counting Team Lesley & John Thornton Jacqueline Ball & Anne Sewell 5th Sunday of the Year

Literally ‘awesome’: I don’t know if you have ever looked up at the night sky on a really clear night. That total silence as you gaze up and try to absorb the view of thousands and thousands of stars. You can’t help but feel how utterly small and insignificant you are. Such an experience can cause the hair on the back of your neck to stand on end. The sheer mystery of it is just awe-inspiring. This strikes me as how it might be if somehow we were to stand close in the presence of God. A feeling of being totally captivated, mesmerised by the awesome presence of God. Yet this is precisely the image we are given in today’s first reading and again in the gospel. The holy man Isaiah pinpoints the occasion as the year in which King Uzziah died. He had some profound experience of being in God’s presence and his reaction was ‘What a wretched state I am in! Yet my eyes have looked upon the king, the Lord of hosts.’ There was a moment when Simon Peter had a similar experience in the presence of Jesus: ‘Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man’. I wonder if you have had any such ‘Wow!’ moment when you felt filled with awe. David Coxon

Letter from Bishop Seamus: Today’s gospel tells us Partnerships: Each week, at mass, we have a prayer for how, after a relatively brief first encounter with Jesus, the all the people in our ‘partnership of parishes’. Yet what we three fishermen, Simon Peter, James and John ‘left mean by a ‘partnership’ is very new to all of us - to everything and followed him’: a dramatic start to a life of parishioners, to priests and also to Bishop Seamus. It hasn’t discipleship. Our own ongoing journey of pastoral been tried before. ‘Partnership’ is not just about another development has not demanded that we literally drop meeting in the diary. It’s much bigger than this. It’s about everything and leave family, friends and careers, but it does actively looking for ways in which all the parishes in a ask us to take the opportunity to pray and reflect on how we partnership can genuinely work together. Perhaps, might become better disciples of Jesus. It is important that, together, preparing engaged couples for marriage. Preparing in this, we have a shared vision. It is important to young people for Confirmation. During Lent, having communicate our Vision, our Mission and our Values to Stations of the Cross across the parishes. Providing training everyone so that they can become part of the very fabric of days for ministers. It can be that, when a priest is ill, the our diocese. Today you receive a Partnership Prayer card. A partnership needs to provide cover (and this could mean a video containing further details is available on YouTube temporary rearrangement of mass times). The partnership [https://youtu.be/8NwfN41wlMQ] and our diocesan will also be delegated to think about unused or under-used website [rcdhn.org.uk] buildings in its area. So, ‘partnerships’ is not something which may not affect us. We are a partnership. This is how Preparing for sacraments: During the week we had a we now operate. further session about the mass for those children and parents preparing for Reconciliation and Holy Communion. Job Vacancy: Caretaker needed for St Joseph’s School, We thought about the word ‘eucharist’, which means ‘thank Ushaw Moor. See advert on green paper in Church porch. you’ or ‘gratitude’. An essential part of the mass, then, is about an attitude of wanting to express Food bank: The Food Bank total for February is thanks to God. In every mass our 130.92kg. Thank you for all your donations.

‘eucharistic prayer’ is our ‘thank you Becoming One Parish: Recently we had an Open prayer’ to God our Father. What are the Meeting to be brought up to date with progress in our three things you might like to thank God for? parishes becoming one. We also looked at two questions: (i) what priorities do we want to focus on if we are genuinely Confirmation: This Sunday afternoon we have our next to be a parish that seeks to bring good news to others? (ii) meeting for young people preparing for Confirmation. This what shared events, activities, projects could we engage in to will again be in the Parish Centre at Newhouse, 2.00 – enable the people of our three parishes to pull together? We 4.00pm. We’ll think about ‘the gifts of the Spirit’. will now seek to prepare a more detailed proposal for our plan, then present this to our Partnership Group, and finally A New Bishop: A new bishop for our diocese has been to the bishop and to the Council of Priests. appointed to succeed Bishop Seamus Cunningham. Bishop Robert Byrne has been an auxiliary (assistant) bishop in Scripture readings for next weekend: Birmingham since 2014 and his installation will take place  Jeremiah 17: 5-8: You choose: put your trust in in St Mary’s cathedral, Newcastle on March 25th. this world, or in God.  1 Corinthians 15: 12, 16-20: The significance of Getting mixed up: It is easy to become confused between ‘resurrection’. ‘partnerships’, ‘Churches Together’ and our move to become  Luke 6: 17, 20-26: Strive for the things of this ‘one parish’! When we speak of ‘one parish’ we are thinking world, or of God. about St Joseph’s, Ushaw Moor, Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Newhouse and St Michael’s, Esh (with Langley Partnership Prayer: Park) coming together to form one united Catholic parish. Risen Christ, Our ‘partnership’ is a grouping of our own local Catholic from your abundant grace, parishes along with the Catholic parishes in Langley Moor, pour out afresh your Holy Spirit upon our Diocese. Durham, , and . And when we As we build on the deep foundations of faith refer to ‘Churches Together’ we mean all the churches laid by the countless saints of these Northern lands, within the ‘DH7’ postcode, whether Catholic, Anglican, by Aidan and Cuthbert, Hilda and Bede , Methodist, Baptist, Salvation Army …. may our Partnerships continue the mission of building your Kingdom on the earth: Forthcoming meetings to give living witness to your love,  Parish Pastoral Council (St Michael’s, sacristy) : th and to your compassion and hope for our world. Wed, Feb 13 , 1.30pm. We pray in trustful confidence  Parish Pastoral Council (OLQM Parish centre) : that your power working in us th Thurs, Feb 14 , 7.00pm. can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Through the same Christ our Lord, Amen